In a move of potentially historic importance, Jordan's National Electricity Power Company today started supplying the West Bank city of Jericho with its electricity.

This ends the delay in the implementation of the agreement signed in mid-2007 between Jordan's King Abdullah and Mahmoud Abbas. The first phase of the project included the building up of double air grids (30 km in Jordan and eight km in the West Bank), that will link the Sweimeh plant to the under-construction Sea-Surface Electricity Plant in Jericho. Work on the second phase began in parallel with the first phase and is expected to be concluded by August 2008.

The Israeli government, which would like to see the creation of a Arab state as soon as that state would stop threatening to kill Israelis, welcomed the move.

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American born, my wife and I moved to Israel in 1970. We have lived at Shiloh together with our family since 1981. I was in the Betar youth movement in the US and UK. I have worked as a political aide to Members of Knesset and a Minister during 1981-1994, lectured at the Academy for National Studies 1977-1994, was director of Israel's Media Watch 1995-2000 and currently, I work at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. I was a guest media columnist on media affairs for The Jerusalem Post, op-ed contributor to various journals and for six years had a weekly media show on Arutz 7 radio. I serve as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish Communities in Judea & Samaria.